[distcc] distcc at Facebook

[Fergus Henderson]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Daniel Pepper <pepper at facebook.com> wrote:

>  great to hear.  I’ve been using open source for years, but would like to
> do some contributing as well.
>
> After digging through all the distcc logs and getting confused as to what
> happened when, I wrote a patch to prefix everything with a timestamp.
>  should I send that your way?
>

Yes.  Interestingly, I wrote a patch to do the same thing ages ago, but I
think I never submitted it; clearly you're not alone in wanting this, so
it's worth including in the main distribution.


> Also, I’ve been using distccmon-text to view what distcc processes are
> doing, but noticed discrepancies as compared with `pgrep distcc | wc –l`.
>  even after enabling DCC_PHASE_STARTUP state tracking, it still looks like
> there’s entries missing.  any idea what there’re up to and how to better
> track them?
>

Well, there is at least one known issue with distccmon (see
http://code.google.com/p/distcc/issues/detail?id=36), but other than that, I
don't know off-hand.

Thanks,
>
> -Daniel
>
>
>
> On 9/8/10 12:49 PM, "Fergus Henderson" <fergus at google.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Daniel Pepper <pepper at facebook.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi developers,
>
> I’m investigating distcc for large scale compilations at Facebook.  From
> looking through the websites on distcc, it looks like the project doesn’t
> currently have tons of momentum.  Is there still interest in development,
> and if so, how can I get involved?
>
>
> I'm still reviewing and accepting patches.  You can post patches to
> distcc-patches at googlegroups.com.
> Of course it is good to discuss design first, and this group is a fine
> place for that.
>
>
> Also, I noticed that trunk has a few features that 3.1 does not – is it
> considered stable?
>
>
> Yes, the trunk is fairly stable. Naturally it won't be as widely tested as
> an official release, but I considered it stable enough to use for a recent
> build that I made for internal use here at Google.
> If there is significant demand for it, I can make a new official release.
>
> Cheers,
>   Fergus.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Daniel
>
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